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Emeritus Professor Dominique Vanneste

Dominique Vanneste is emeritus professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium), Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Division of Geography & Tourism. Her main research interests are Historical geography (relationship between landscape, heritage, identity and conservation) and Tourism, mainly considered as a lever for local development and collaboration. Ideally, she combines these domains with a focus on cultural and heritage tourism. She uses the landscape as an integrative framework and she promotes the themed landscape as a sustainable tourism product. Recently, she researched the impact of the pandemic on (intended) post-pandemic tourism strategies and management in rural and urban contexts.

Associate Professor Thérèse Steenberghen

Thérèse Steenberghen is associate professor at the KU Leuven Faculty of Science, Division of Geography and Tourism. Her research and teaching focus is on geospatial analyses in spatial planning, mobility, tourism, and built cultural heritage. She is research manager of LIM, the Leuven Institute for Mobility. Her main ongoing research projects are: An ontology for cultural heritage management integrating 3D and 4D features, case study Cuenca, Ecuador; ERA-NET project CATAPULT - Policy for inclusive, demand-driven and target-group-specific automated mobility solutions for cities; Proximity analysis for the Brussels-10-Minutes city; KULeuven think-tank Metaforum, working on the elaboration of a dashboard for the evaluation of COVID-19 policies impacts on society.